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The Collected Short Stories
Jean Rhys
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Description for The Collected Short Stories
Paperback. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA; FYB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 23. Weight in Grams: 292.
New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer ... Read more
New to Penguin Classics, the remarkable, devastating collected stories by the author of Wide Sargasso Sea. Some of Jean Rhys's most powerful writing is to be found in this rich, dark collection of her collected stories. Her fictional world is haunted by her own, painful memories: of cheap hotels and drab Parisian cafes; of devastating love affairs; of her childhood in Dominica; of drifting through European cities, always on the periphery and always perilously close to the abyss. Rendered in extraordinarily vivid, honest prose, these stories show Rhys at the height of her literary powers and offer ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141984858
SKU
V9780141984858
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About Jean Rhys
Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1894. After arriving in England aged sixteen, she became a chorus girl and drifted between different jobs before moving to Paris, where she started to write in the late 1920s. She published a story collection and four novels, after which she disappeared from view and lived reclusively for many years. In 1966 she ... Read more
Reviews for The Collected Short Stories
This book fully exhibits Rhys's extraordinary talent for prose
Independent
She is the novelist of longing and yearning and rage and sexual desire ... One of the twentieth-century greats
Linda Grant The force of her stories lies in the fusion of elegant prose with an uncanny penetration into the darker reaches of the soul
Washington Post ... Read more
Independent
She is the novelist of longing and yearning and rage and sexual desire ... One of the twentieth-century greats
Linda Grant The force of her stories lies in the fusion of elegant prose with an uncanny penetration into the darker reaches of the soul
Washington Post ... Read more